Chapter 16

• Running in the dark and stumbling over dead branches was giving her deep fears of what was to come. Simone pushed back the damp leaves and forced herself forward into the unknown woods. She wasn't sure how long she had been running, but it was getting harder and harder to breathe with each new intake of breath, it felt like she was trying to swallow sandpaper.
• Chills ran down her whole body when she heard the heavy footsteps heading full force towards her. Fear crept inside her every pore as sweat beads fell down her body.
• She wanted to look back, but was afraid of what she would see if she did. A loud hiss echoed throughout the dark eerie woods and somehow her legs locked, and she couldn't make herself move anymore, no matter how hard she willed herself to move. She just couldn’t. The footsteps behind her had also ceased, but only to circle her in a menacing way.